No more palpable proof of this can be desired than the instantaneous attacks on it, the jeers, howls, hoots and hisses of which a careful ear may catch some far faint echo even yet; the fearful and furtive yelp from beneath of the masked and writhing Poeticule, the shrill reverberation all around it of plagiarism and parody.
"A Study of Shakespeare"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
It is always rash to appeal to the future, as a posturing English novelist did in one of his Prefaces; and it is well to remember the witticism of Voltaire, who, on hearing an ambitious Poeticule read his Ode to Posterity, doubted whether it would reach its address.
"Prisoner for Blasphemy"
G. W. [George William] Foote
